Emotional OT win for Hawks

Saturday

Oct 6, 2012 at 3:15 AM

By John Doylejdoyle@fosters.com Twitter: @JohnDoyle603

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Emily Osborne scored the game-winning goal in overtime for the Marshwood High School field hockey team on Friday. But she got plenty of help, and didn’t leave anyone out when asked to describe it.“Jun (Shin) sent it up on the wing,” Osborne said. “I used as much speed as I had and sent it right to Lindsey (Poirier). She sent it to Karissa (Boesch), who sent it back over to me, and I slammed it in.”The goal came 82 seconds into overtime and lifted Marshwood to a thrilling 2-1 win over Massabesic.The win gave the defending Western Maine Class A champions a final regular-season record of 12-2 and will likely give them the No. 3 seed in the upcoming tournament. Should the Hawks finish third, they will not only receive a bye into the quarterfinals, but host a game when they get there.“We’re not used to being the team that everyone’s after,” Marshwood coach Lisa Truesdale said. “We like going after teams. So this was huge (with) everything these girls are going through right now. To come together like this, it was a team effort. This showed them they have what it takes.”Osborne dedicated her goal to former Marshwood student-athlete Troy Pappas, who was seriously injured in a fall last weekend at Bates College. The incident weighed heavily on the Marshwood student body this past week, and many current players were friends with Pappas. “It’s affected us a lot,” Osborne said. “We just wanted to play this really bad, and we wanted it all for Troy and our seniors.” It was the third emotional game between the two teams in the last two seasons. In 2011, Marshwood beat the Mustangs 1-0 in the regular-season finale in Waterboro, then returned to the same field a week later and earned a 3-0 quarterfinal win.“We remember this game from last year, and it was such a big game,” said Marshwood senior forward Sammy Crosman. “We were looking forward to it all day and we wanted to go all out and win it.”The teams played a scoreless first half on Friday, during which Marshwood’s Ashley Tice missed on a penalty stroke with 2:33 left. The Hawks fell behind 1-0 after Logan Provencher put the Mustangs on the board with 18:08 to play in the game. The goal came off a penalty corner.Marshwood got the equalizer with 6:44 to play when Crosman, heavily guarded by Massabesic’s Alexis Foglio on a penalty corner, flicked a shot from the circle and into the cage to tie the game 1-1.“It’s hard after they score a goal,” Crosman said. “You don’t want the momentum to shift. We needed to get the momentum back, and that’s what we did.”It was the sixth straight win for the Hawks. Massabesic fell to 8-3-1.“It was two gladiators going at each other back and forth,” said Massabesic coach Michele Martin-Moore. “There are some really good players on both sides of that ball. I really think either team could have won, and neither coach would be upset.”Marshwood outshot the Mustangs 13-5 in the second half and 23-14 for the afternoon. Each team took six penalty corners.